iOS4 camera roll - "Places" I've never been

[gilkisson]

Checking out the features and toys of the new iPhone, I stumbled upon an oddity -- it seems that some of the videos I shot from the phone, were (according to the Places feature) actually recorded somewhere off the coast of Africa.

No big deal, certainly not a show stopper, just thought it was amusing enough to share.

 

[iPhone Addict]

Your phone was previously used in a Nigerian 409 scam

 

[Peace]

You didn't give the geolocation time enough to hone in closer on your device.

 

[gilkisson]

Your phone was previously used in a Nigerian 409 scam

How in the flyvver do they stay in business? Are there *THAT* many people with money dumb enough to send it to a "prince of Nigeria"?

You didn't give the geolocation time enough to hone in closer on your device.

That's an interesting theory. I wonder how much time it would take. I got the phone on Thursday, took these videos on Saturday. Do you have a cite for a time or resting period needed for it to "hone in"?

 

[iMrNiceGuy0023]

how do I geotag the pics I take? When I got my phone on launch day it did it automatically

now it doesnt seem to do it, where do I turn it on at?

 

[innominato5090]

Checking out the features and toys of the new iPhone, I stumbled upon an oddity -- it seems that some of the videos I shot from the phone, were (according to the Places feature) actually recorded somewhere off the coast of Africa.

No big deal, certainly not a show stopper, just thought it was amusing enough to share.

I guess that the coordinates of that pin are 0°N, 0°E
that makes me think that it was a camera.app bug that failed to retrieve the coordinates from the gps sensor

 

[andybno1]

how do I geotag the pics I take? When I got my phone on launch day it did it automatically

now it doesnt seem to do it, where do I turn it on at?

check location services is set to on under settings and that in there camera is set to on

 

[rikbrown]

If geolocation doesn't find you it just won't save a place.

On the other hand, that place in Africa is 0N0E, so yeah, as said, it must have been a bug or glitch.

 

[Che Castro]

The Motherland

 

[Vizin]

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[iApples]

Haha same thing happened to me.

 

[jthomp]

I noticed that any saved images from the web or from emails that have the geo-location tag enabled will do this. I first saw it and wondered why I had a pin in AK, then I saw a picture I saved... That's about the only thing that ever made sense to me...

 

[tirk]

How in the flyvver do they stay in business? Are there *THAT* many people with money dumb enough to send it to a "prince of Nigeria"?

Apparently there are!

indeed!!

 

[ticotoo]

Places

You just found ATLANTIS

 

[jimbo1mcm]

Secret Location

The buried treasure is located there.

 

[VulchR]

You just found ATLANTIS

My thought exactly. Mystery solved.